hack

A top-level guide for planning authorized web and API security testing. It helps identify the testing phase and choose a more specific vulnerability guide.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan reconnaissance, vulnerability validation, privilege-escalation checks, exploit-chain analysis, and selection of specialized web-security skills.
Why use it?
It prevents testing from jumping straight into an unsuitable technique and requires the target’s scope and authorization to be confirmed first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/miru-zero/zero-brain/hack
Any agent
npx skills add miru-zero/zero-brain --skill hack
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/miru-zero/zero-brain

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,987 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 95% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00047 $0.01987
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00993
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00397
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00199

Measured yesterday against content hash f0e8a417d20a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hack scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to hack — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/hack/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HACKING SKILLS / HackSkills

Overview

This is a top-level routing skill for bug bounty, web security, API security, and authorized penetration testing.

Its core role is not to replace all specialized techniques, but to help the agent:

  1. First determine the testing phase (Recon / Validation / Privilege Escalation / Chain building)
  2. Then select the correct vulnerability category
  3. Avoid relying only on baseline model memory; prefer structured methodology
  4. Prioritize boundary conditions AI often misses but that matter in real engagements

Trust Model

  • This knowledge base emphasizes content safety and auditability.
  • Use this only within authorized targets, legitimate research, defensive validation, and bug-bounty-approved rules.
  • Do not use these techniques for unauthorized attacks.
  • Zero Scope Gate: ก่อน ACT กับ target จริงต้องมี scope + auth.status=granted + network_profile ครบ — อ่านสัญญาเต็มในสมอง (zero_search "Scope Gate") ไม่ครบให้ถามผู้ใช้ก่อนเสมอ ห้าม ACT

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill first in the following scenarios:

  • You just received a new bug bounty target and do not know where to start
  • You need to decide whether to load XSS / SQLi / SSRF / IDOR / JWT / API tracks first
  • You want the agent to perform Web/API security testing with a more stable methodology
  • You need to route scattered findings to the right attack surface
  • You want AI to miss fewer critical test points in security work

Operating Model

Step 1: Start with Recon and context validation

Collect first:

  • Target type: classic web, REST API, mobile backend, admin panel, payment flow, file upload, GraphQL
  • Identity and permission model: anonymous, regular user, admin, multi-tenant
  • Input locations: URL, query parameters, JSON, headers, cookies, filenames, imported files, templates, reflection points
  • Output locations: HTML, attributes, JS, PDF, email, logs, background tasks, mobile endpoints

Step 2: Route by observed behavior

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 161 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A f0e8a417d20a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hack is a skill published in the GitHub repository miru-zero/zero-brain (0 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,987 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to hack, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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